Massachusetts College of Art and Design - Palette and Pen Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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MISS HELEN ' CLEAVES Waban, Mass. Studied under Charles Woodbury and Denman Ross IXSIRICTOR. Dfp.XRTMENT OF EdLC.WION The Teacher Trainers have certainly en- joyed their work with Miss Cleaves, who has combined a flexible wit with an excel- lent course. No matter what her topic, it is interesting, dramatized, and at points overwhelmingly humorous. Those art teach- ers who have not become familiar with her theories and practise would do well to cleave unto her, verily. The absent treat- ment course which she has given us for museum investigation is quite flattering, and since she is one of the most comfort- able persons to work with, never shrieking with insistence for anything, everybody re- wards her willingly. (We feel exposed to ridicule for not finding an adverse criti- cism. I THERON CAIN ■South Braintree, Mass. -Muinnus M. N. S. I.NSTRUCTOR IN PERSPECTIVE AND FrEE- Hand Drawing The fearful rigors of perspective are well known. If we remember our history cor- rectly, we recall that back in the eighteenth century William Turner was having his difficulties with the same subject. From such feeble sources do we endeavor to gain consolation. Mr. Cain, fortunately, is al- ways ready to explain this highly technical subject to the point where there is under- standing. His conscientious teaching and sense of humor help to make his pupils shoulder the p roblems philosophically and with sincere (determination. Sir. Cain, it is, who sets his low classmen out in the transportation lanes to make sketches of the halls of this institution. VIr. Cain has exhibited this year in Boston. MARTHA M. FLINT 267 High St.. Newburyport, Mass. Studied in Cincinnati. New York and Boston; on the Facultj- of the S. I). Taylor School. Instructor in Costume Design Miss Flint has charge over the cutting and basting rooms of the Costume Design class. Occasionally, when something big is under way. the peace of her drafting rooms is invaded by an army of actors and supers in search of red cloaks, fezes, mandarin ' s shoes and pins to fasten the ensemble together, and Miss Flint calmly draws upon a stock of endless yards of goods for large or small productions. She and her corps of workers are ready always to take up their shears and needles from the Repertory Theatre to the Opera House, where with Mr. Major as stage manager, she costumed .Aida with great success and she received a steady round of ap- plause for her work when the curtain went up on the setting. ISABELLA DAMRELL 5 Lee Street, Cambridge Secretary to the Director Miss Damre’l runs the holy of holies (the inner office) and still manages to emerge from the fray with a disposition that makes the short-in-the-grain Year Book staff green-eyed with envy. ’S the truth, although she does her best to “main- tain discipline by glaring at us when she lends us once and forever the common pins of the state of Massachusetts, by telling us that we are the world ' s most awful nuisance when she gives us yards and yards of wrapping paper and by trying hard (though ineffectually) to look danger- ous whi ' e she helps to get our ' copy ready for the engraver. You ' ll have to take the smile lines and the candles out of your eyes. Miss Damrell, while you preach at us, if you would be a success at being cold and callous. We hope all the perfect little Sophs and Freshmen will never bother you — just so that you will miss, and perhaps remember us.

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EDWIN HOADLEV 52 Lewis Road. RelmoiU Alumnus AI. X. A. S. . ' Student of Dynamic Symmetry. Lecturer. Instructor of AIf.c hamc.u. Dr.wving Mr. Hoadley cannot easily be catalogued under one heading. His subjects range from mechanics and dynamic symmetr ' through water color and nature study to the building of muscle-strengthening ma- chines and ventriloduism. with sidelights on astronomy. Mr. Hoadley ' s week is more animated than the arms ot a windmill on an eastardly day. convention lecture, class in stage make-up and an e.xhibition of magic, at which we pretend not to be as- tonished. are all within his repertory. More important, he is adept in the art.s of mak- ing friends with his students. JOHN SHAKMOX 101 Camden St., lloston. Alass. Studied with Tarbell. lloston Museum School: studied with Frank Ilrangwyn. Instructor at R. I. School of Design Instructor in Dr.wving . nd P.cinting COURSF. Sometimes one may enter the Junior class without ever having known that the painter of the fine canvases at the Guild and other Boston Galleries is Mr. Shannon of our faculty. His days for criticisms are spent behind closed doors. Occasion- ally a tired but happy Junior or Senior staggers out for a drink of water. There emerges through the half open door the sound of charcoal on paper and cjuiet instructions to draw, and draw, then draw some more.” Air. Shannon believes, if we quote him correctly, that painting is little more than drawing, and that “the little more” is the creative quality which cannot be taught. He is responsible for the influencing of many of our “Fine Arters” by his “priemier coup,” still lifes and landscapes. LAURIEN H. AIARTIX 14 Park Street, Lowell, Alass. Student of DeCainp. . rthur Gaskin and Alexander Fisher of London Instructor of AIetai. Crafts In gloomy caverns underground Air. Alartin holds his classes to the accompani- ment of murderous hammers, billows of llame and clouds of acid fumes. Provided one escapes with his life and has displayed an amount of intelligence, at the end of the course, thanks to Air. Alartin — to what extent some shall never realize — we have to show for our mangled thumbs, singed eye- brows and acid-eaten smocks some pieces of hand-made jewelry of varxing quality. It has been estimated that Air. Alartin in the course of our morning ' s instruction covers more distance than any one person in the same amount of time in school, and that he has accompished more reconstruct- ing. reorganizing and general salvage work than any committee for the rehabilitation of shell-torn homes in France. Occasion- ally it is our privilege to see pieces of craft work from Air. Alartin ' s own stuilio. So Il ' c Toil On. ADRIAN lORlO 6 Newbury St , Boston, Alass. “.Vo where so busy a man there was, .Ind yet he seemed busier than he was.” Instructor in Design man surprisingly eipiipped to teach us. having in his youth been trained in the printing arts, paper making and advertis- ing business, having associated with the prominent de-igners of the times, his anec- dotes are rich in personal touches. He is an active designer for the commercial houses of the day. and gives the pupils the inside story of the artistic side of advertising. He worked with the founders of the Strathmore Paper Company in its early days; has wielded an air-brush in a newspaper office, and done three men ' s work in an advertising agency in New A Ork. AHSS ETHEL G. B.VRTLETT Longfellow Court, 1 200 Alass. . ve., Cambridge . Iumnus AI. N. S. Instructor in W ater Color I • ) W ' e haven ' t been grown up long enough to let many people call us child. but ■Miss Bartlett puts so much personal inter- m est and so much one of ours” feeling into this little word that we go back to do xvater colors- and go back to be touched on the arm and called child.” If we are ever water colorists, as is our dear- est dream, we will have only Aliss Bartlett to thank Aliss Bartlett who praised our futile, first efforts: Aliss Bartlett who j tacked our slightly better Sophomore efforts on the walls, and Aliss Bartlett who i could always find a spot on any group on 1 which to say. You ' ve done something | there, child.” M She doth little kindnesses, hieh all others leave undone — or despise; j For naught that sets one’s heart at ease, ; i Or giveth happiness or peace.

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JIANOOK AND MR. MAJOR May be addressed at 30 Ipswich Street, Fenway Studios, Boston. MISS LILAH AIERFE VAUGHAN 400 Crescent St., Waltham. Mass. Graduate of Boston University with degrees of .A B. and .A.M.. Phi Beta Kappa. Studied at Harvard. Civic Welfare Work. Women ' s Municipal League. Assistant Professor of Economics and Sociology at Boston L ' niversity since 1920. Instructor in Sociology Miss Vaughan has continually pointed to her red hair, demolished romances and family, as positive indications of her fear- ful behavior: and though she grows grim at moments, threatening to hang the ob- streperous out of the window. the kindly maiden always recovers her smile and con- tinues to administer Sociology of the most stupefying importance. It is said that her solutions of universal and personal worries are precious, her sympathy exquisite, and her friendliness comforting. F ' or all that, do join her group and lend your ears to the sombre truths of mortality, and enter- tain your eyes with the Key and the Hat. LAURA A. CARNEY 66 Calvary St.. Waltham. Mass. Recorder .vnd Bookkeeper Miss Carney sends home our reports when we least e.xpect them and thus de- prives us the opportunity of softening the blow to our family by subtle introduction. Outside of that persistent habit we all have several cockles of our several hearts saved for Miss Carney, her red hair, and her nice lace collars and cuffs. She saves our keys, invaluable gems and watches our note- books and powder compacts, our paints and pocketbooks which we scatter promis- cuously about the premises. How she answers phones, saves the State ' s money and keeps her sanity while her visitors rush in and out, we do not know. We offer a consoling thought that some day when we are all undeniably famous she will say, For him I once kept a tube of emeraude green I What price glory? LUDWIG FRANK The New School of Design Newbury Street, Boston Instructor in Textile Design Once in the lives of “squib” writers comes the heaven-sent opportunity to do an original writeup of one of the faculty Our advantage this time, however, is some- what lessened because Mr. Frank started his classes late in the year and his instruc- tion is limited to Senior Designers. He was born in Germany. His first work there was scene-shifting until he came to Boston, where he secured a position as instructor of mechanical drawing. Mr. Frank soon after studied design with Mr. George, and with a summer ' s work in textile design, his talent for this division of design brought him immediate success. Today he has a record of having done some four hundred cretonne designs, some of which are to be seen in the moving pictures. Mr. Frank has his own school on Newbury Street, at which some of our instructors hold classes.